Yesterday grammar made the news—on the homepage of Yahoo News to be exact.
This week I started reading The Glamour of Grammar (2010) by Roy Peter Clark. I'm really enjoying it! It's a book that celebrates the intricacies of language with a little bit of how-to in it.
As I read the book and talked with our editorial intern last week, I realized more that words and language are exciting to me in the same way my artistic friend gets excited about colors and design, and in the same way that my hubby loves board games that are deep in strategy. And also in the same way that I see the contestants who did well on So You Think You Can Dance feel about the art of dance and performance.
So yesterday I went to Barnes & Noble and bought a copy of Writer's Digest magazine. I've never bought a single issue of a magazine since it's usually twice the price of one issue of a subscription, but this time I felt compelled. It's a "Top 10" theme that includes enough content about non-fiction this issue and I'm enjoying it. Unfortunately (for me), other issues of the magazine usually covers mostly fiction.
An ancient lit professor in college loved to talk about the Oxford English Dictionary that showed etymology. He was a happy guy who made everyone laugh with phrases he made up. Since then, every once and a while I've wondered if I should get that type of dictionary for fun. The author of the book I'm reading mentioned the dictionary in that way. We'll see.
i hear you...i love words and language as well...actually language is a big part of my identity, of who i am...the way i talk, things i talk about, words i chose, phrases i build, quotes i use, expressions i invent - all that is a good chunk of who i am really..of course i am speaking about my mother tongue...but a huge part of my life i spend speaking English, it almost become my second identity but i wonder if i ever will be able to enjoy and play with it, to choose words i really want, to feel them roll on my tongue, to feel the sweetness of their meaning or sub meaning or no-meaning but still making some scene to some...i wish one day it happens...
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